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OPPORTUNITY

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Traducere în limba română

opportunity substantiv

1. prilej ocazie (favorabilă); înlesnire;

at the first / earliest opportunity cu prima ocazie;

to have an opportunity to a avea ocazia / prilejul să;

to take an opportunity a profita de un prilej / de o ocazie;

to avail oneself of the opportunity to do smth. a profita de ocazie pentru a face ceva;

to miss / to throw away / to let slip an opportunity a pierde / a lăsa să-i scape un prilej / o ocazie;

to provide opportunities for education a asigura înlesniri pentru învăţământ;

(prov.) opportunity makes the thief prilejul te face hoţ.

2. (rar) oportunitate.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I'm sure I gave you every opportunity.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then, when we get the opportunity that we seek, when none are near to see, we shall open the box, and—and all will be well.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For—for very little more than opportunity.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Of course I couldn't say anything after that, and as it really is a splendid opportunity, I made the bargain, and we began.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I should have known the opportunity, but it never came.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Scientists are treating the flyby of the estimated 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity, allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.

(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, Editura Global Info)

This Network will generate new trials in areas of high scientific opportunity.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Your powers, if I may say so without offence, seem superior to your opportunities.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have long been waiting for an opportunity to escape.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

You will find yourself at precisely the right place at the right time to take full advantage of opportunities as they come your way.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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